Congress Must Cut Spending
July 22nd, 2008
The National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) released its latest BillTally report examining the costs of proposals backed by Members of Congress, and the results aren’t pretty. The data clearly shows that Congress’s raw legislative work product is not concentrated on reducing the federal deficit.
While there are some signs that more lawmakers in the 110th Congress are seeking out ways to trim expenditures, these steps have been halting and erratic. The majority of lawmakers sponsored a mix of legislation that would, on net, result in new spending, thereby increasing the strain on the budget and the burden on taxpayers.
The latest report analyzes every piece of legislation introduced in the first session of the 110th Congress that would affect federal spending by at least $1 million. If all those bills became law, how would taxpayers be affected?
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